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In this episode, Nakala interviews Tom Briggs who, along with his dad Colin, operates a mixed cropping property near Rutherglen, Victoria. The father and son team have strong regenerative farming values and while being moderate synthetic input users, are now two years into a longer-term plan to remove synthetic fertilisers from their system. Listen to this […]

Di Haggerty operates a 12000-hectare sheep and cereal property in Western Australia’s central Wheatbelt using animals, worm liquid, compost extract and low levels of nitrogen. Di farms with her husband Ian and son James. The recent Charles Massy book “Call of the Reed Warbler” writes that the Haggertys are two of the most radical and open-minded thinkers […]

Blake Vince is a corn, soybean and wheat producer from Canada. He is a Nuffield scholar, a cover crop specialist, a pioneer of no-till practices and an international speaker on regenerative farming practices. In this episode, Blake talks about reducing the impact and use of glyphosate, success in sowing corn clean without fungicide or pesticides, […]

Andrew Freshwater from Australian Food and Farming has recently taken over a conventional cropping property in Tocumwal, NSW where he is building a holistic grazing operation. Andrew talks about jumpstarting a biological system, holistic management decision making, and transparency in food production.

JUNE BIOLOGICAL FARMING ROUNDTABLE PRESENTS AGROECOLOGIST DAVID HARDWICK & INNOVATIVE LOW INPUT CEREAL FARMER DAVID COOK Presenter One 10am to 12pm In this session, Agroecologist, David Hardwick will be taking participants through the fundamental steps in starting to read a soil test and provide basic rules that will assist producers in making sense of soil tests. Hot soup and bread roll lunch […]

Local family Biological Fertiliser business, NutriSoil, has been recognised as a leader in change and integrity at the Australian Organics Awards last Thursday, where they were awarded Australian Organic Product of the Year, non food item. NutriSoil is a concentrated worm liquid, produced from a unique Vermiculture Recycling System used in broad acre farming […]